Question-Based Critical Thinking (QBCT) features a series of four books written to
Change How We Think.
A Healthy Democracy’s
Best Hope
Coming Soon
Critical Thinking for Every Classroom Is the essential handbook for busy educators who want to energize their coursework with the essential critical thinking skills to give their students a competitive edge in and out of class.
By outlining the fundamentals of critical thinking in an exceedingly digestible format, Critical Thinking for Every Classroom supplements any subject. With this new volume, teachers can imbue any lesson with critical thinking concepts to enhance their programming.
Democracy’s Best Hope empowers its readers with an impactful, question-oriented set of filters designed to examine the quality of reasons for one’s beliefs, decisions and behaviors. This book introduces the Explosive Eleven, essential questions yielding robust insights for This book is based on more than five decades of prestigious critical thinking education and consulting experience in mind.
Browne has been recognized through numerous state, local and national teaching awards and brings his practical classroom expertise to this latest book, which also integrates the latest research, demonstrating the fierce power of visuals over text to facilitate learning. With photos and infographics, the authors provide concepts and strategies that transform the promise of educational institutions to teach critical thinking into an impressive, recognizable set of lifelong attitudes and skills.
The Book that Started it All
Read around the world in 14 languages, Asking the Right Questions is the widely-embraced guide to critical thinking rooted in inquiry. ARQ defies categorization; it interests academics in fields from English to Accounting, as well as everyday readers. Asking the Right Questions is a critical thinking handbook both accessible and profound.
Asking the Right Questions
Critical Thinking
for Every Classroom:
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Coming 2024
Friendly Critical Thinking transforms critical thinking from an uncomfortable activity into an exciting one of mutual teaching and learning. It sets aside the sentiment that critical thinking training is best used for winning arguments in favor of approaching critical thinking with both humility and wonder. In doing so, the text encourages a teaching approach that does not just "fix" students, but models how a friendly critical thinker acts. The critical thinking conversation is a mutual interchange of active thinking.
This book transforms critical thinking from being an educational goal into an action program for teachers to share with students. Society does not need more critical thinking students who are reluctant to use critical thinking in their interactions with others. What it needs is more critical thinking students who love being in a world where critical thinking is encouraged and who wish to be future ambassadors selling the habit to others.
Friendly Critical Thinking
Incredible Critical Thinking:
Visual Pathways to Better Decisions
Coming 2024
Incredible Critical Thinking Is a vibrant collection of infographics, photos and cartoons illustrating critical thinking principles in memorable and meaningful ways.
Heavy on images and light on prose, this text is rooted in the latest research demonstrating the power of visuals to enhance learning as well as the authors’ deep experience in teaching critical thinking. Visual Windows captures the imagination while engaging the intellect with charming characters and intriguing examples while building on the core academic concepts of the Explosive Eleven and Friendly Critical Thinking; it is unlike any other critical thinking book out there.